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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Assam Violence: And Then Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore…India!

Some fundamentalists are playing a sinister game of communal politics taking
advantage of the Assam
violence that erupted in July, 2012. These forces are spreading rumors through
mobile short text or multimedia messages and are trying to create panic—place
by place and community by community.

First point to note is that Assam has had no history of
communalism ever as we have said earlier too. What happened there was due to
increasing economic pressures created by continuing illegal immigration over
the decades and the erupting ethnic violence involved poor people of various
communities who just want to survive. These threatened people cannot afford to
indulge in religious luxuries or wars.

The Assam
violence had its first case of blatant misuse in Mumbai in the afternoon of
August 11, 2012. People of a community of Mumbai had a demonstration to protest
against the ‘killings’ of their people in Assam which was untrue
conceptually, because the ethnic violence was not a ‘killing’ spree, it was a
terrible and almost inevitable human tragedy. Anyway, the protest march was
planned peacefully and in a democracy it had to be permitted. But some evil
forces penetrated the march and created mayhem in the most prominent locality
of the city. Nobody expected such a chaotic situation from a peaceful
demonstration and it took the police and the media who were the main targets by
total surprise. For one hour the unbelievable rioting, burning, loot and
anarchy prevailed leading to deaths to two people and injuries to many including
policemen and journalists and media vans. The fundamentalist forces had their first strike.

One led to the other. After the Mumbai violence many people admitted
receiving inflammatory and instigating messages regarding the planned protest. The
messages then spread to Pune and the students of the North East region where Assam is
situated were reportedly harassed and threatened. Then the evil designs invaded
Bangalore—the IT hub of India. North Eastern
students started fleeing their hostels in panic and in thousands taking the
next available trains or flights.

The fundamentalist forces are trying to create a communal divide all over
India
by targeting the North Eastern students in the garb of ‘revenge’. The government
of India and the concerned
states have been taking steps to reassure the safety of all people from Assam and the North East living anywhere in India.
But the rumor mongers and the divisive forces must be stopped before they
target new areas. All of the evil forces must be punished immediately and
involved politicians in this sinister game must be identified.

Baby Falak, the bruised and brutalized 2-year-old girl, finally decided to say goodbye to this cruel world (India) and departed for a better world. The poor child died on her third cardiac arrest on Thursday (March 15, 2012) at the same Delhi hospital she was admitted to though she had been improving well over the past few days. Doctors attending for nearly two months were planning to discharge her soon, but they were not sure of her brain functioning.

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Amulya Kumar Chakravarty

Noted Writer-Translator-Administrator of Assam 1928-1991

Amulya Kumar Chakravarty Memorial Trust Award

Amulya Kumar Chakravarty was a writer and a celebrated translator of world epics. He translated Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad and Virgil’s Aenid into Assamese. These books were published in the seventies and eighties in Assam, India; and even now are bestsellers going into multiple editions. Doubled with a flowing original language and strict authenticity these translated epics are hailed in Assam as trend setting translations.

Amulya Kumar Chakravarty had a hard life. Being a farmer’s son he went to the nearby town for studies and after graduation set off for Calcutta (now Kolkata) for post graduation in English. His ambition was to become a college teacher so that he could devote his life to education and writings. But due to economic hardships he had to come back half way and was forced to join Assam Civil Service of which he could not ever come out. He also contracted diabetes after forty years of age. Uprightness, honesty and efficiency ruling his career he always struggled for economic stability. He never had enough money and always took pride in telling that his only investments in life had been on his four children's education. Burning a lot of midnight oil, literally, and waging a constant war against mosquitoes he continued his writing activities and apart from the three translated epics he also wrote numerous short stories and a half completed novel. His exemplary honesty remains a source of inspiration for his admirers in today's environment of rampant corruption.

Amulya Kumar Chakravarty passed away in 1991. His family and local literary bodies in Guwahati formed a memorial Trust in 2002 and decided to institute an Award for excellent literary translations in Assamese on a biennial basis. The first Award consisting of cash prize and certificate was given in 2003 to one of the nominated books. This gave a tremendous boost to promote genuine translation works in Assam.

The Trust has announced the Award for 2011 to eminent author Dr. Prafulla Kataky for his outstanding contribution to Assamese literary translation work.

The Award was presented at an august function held on October 09, 2011 at Veterinary College Auditorium, Guwahati.

For 2013 the Sixth Amulya Kumar Chakravarty Memorial Translation Literature Award was presented to Author-Translator Bipul Deuri at a dignified ceremony held on 6th October, the 22nd Death Anniversary of Amulya Kumar Chakravarty, at Sankardev Kalakshetra, Guwahati. The Award was handed over by Imran Shah, President of Assam Sahitya Sabha. A Painting Competition for Children was organized by Shrutinaad earlier on the day as a part of the event.

Translation Award-2011 Presented to Dr. Prafulla Kataky.

Urmila Chakravarty, President of the Trust, Talking to Media.

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RAGINI CHAKRAVARTY

Music and More>>>

Ragini Chakravarty is a Hindustani Classical Vocalist of the famed Kirana gharana and a disciple of Padmabhushan Dr. Prabha Atre. Ragini has been performing all over India with her classical recitals, light compositions and sangeet se sangeet tak concerts. She can be consulted here for program details.Under the banner of Shrutinaad Ragini also conducts regular classes on vocal music.Ragini's second audio album 'Bhoyai Oi...Kahani Ahiba Ghuri' (O' My Beloved...When Are You Coming Back Home!) was released at Guwahati on 4th January by renowned writer-author Lakshminandan Bora. This album consists of ten immortal Assamese songs of poet-composer-author-freedom fighter Kamalananda Bhattacharyya. Beauty of words and melody make these numbers irresistible.

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Ragini's Album 'Bhoyai Oi...'

Assamese Song by Ragini Chakravarty

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'My Grandfather's Songs'. Ragini's First Album of Immortal Songs of Kamalananda Bhattacharyya

Ram Kahiye!

Ram Kahiye!

Ragini at Jaipur, March 2, 2011

43rd Mahashivratri Bhavya Sangeet Samaroh, 2011.

Geet Se Sangeet Tak...A Musical Journey

Ragini performing at Karnataka Sangha, Mumbai, Jan 30, 2011

Tributes to Poet Composer Kamalananda Bhattachayya

It was on this day of 4th January, 1951 that the State of Assam lost a great son , a poet, composer, lyricist, playwright and freedom fighter, Kamalananda Bhattacharyya who had composed over 200 songs in Assamese apart from a vast array of other writings. We offer our tributes to this great personality whose treasure-house of pristine music continues to inspire us and all music lovers of Assam.

Bibekananda Bhattacharyya

Mass Movement Against Terror

But when common people are fed up and angry they are capable of revolutions, again, if properly supported and guided. Pages of world history give enough proofs of that which everybody would accept except perhaps Pakistan.